Facts About Masayoshi Son
Exhibit|March 2017

Masayoshi Son is the CEO of the Soft Bank Group Corp and a billionaire.

Konark Tyagi
Facts About Masayoshi Son

He dropped out of high school at 15 after reading a book by Ryoma. Here are some more interesting bits about one of the most powerful CEO’s of the world.

According to Forbes, Masayoshi Son is the 53rd most powerful person in the world, 51st richest person in 2015, 12th richest in Technology and Japan’s second richest person. Masayoshi Son has been highly motivated by a book written by a Samurai called Ryoma. While addressing a crowd outside Ryoma Memorial Museum, Son said,"Ryoma was the beginning stage in my life”. He emphasized on the point that how insignificant and small we are in context to the bigger things in life.

Son said his life was changed majorly at 15 when he read a book about Ryoma, whose worldly perspective motivated Son to leave secondary school a year later to go to the U.S. He has rehashed the book a few circumstances since: at the season of SoftBank's establishing, amid a three-year episode of genuine sickness and when he purchased the Japanese unit of Vodafone Group Plc, venturing billions of dollars into the red.

Son and the Samurai he drew inspiration from have a couple of things in like manner. Both were once young fellows of humble beginnings and incredible desire who went up against the foundation. Ryoma assumed a key part in consummation Japan's 300-year disconnection as a component of the development to topple the Tokugawa shogunate. He is credited with building up the country's first exchanging organization. He was killed at age 33 by still-obscure professional killers using a shotgun.

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